18 Facts About Frederick Sandys

Frederick Sandys was associated with the Norwich School of painters.

Frederick Sandys was born in Norwich, and received his earliest lessons in art from his father, Anthony Sands, who was himself a painter.

Frederick Sandys was educated at Norwich School and later attended the Norwich School of Design in 1846.

Frederick Sandys had a long affair with the Romany woman Keomi Gray, who sat as a model both for him and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and perhaps for Simeon Solomon.

In 1862 Frederick Sandys met actress Mary Emma Jones, known as Miss Clive, when she modeled for The Magdalen, now owned by the Norwich Castle Museum.

Frederick Sandys gave birth to a large number of children, 10 of whom were raised under the name of Neville and survived after Sandys's death.

Frederick Sandys influenced his younger sister, Emma Frederick Sandys, whose works were mainly portraits of children and of young women, often in period or medieval clothing.

Frederick Sandys died in Kensington in west London in 1904.

Frederick Sandys displayed great skills as a draughtsman, achieving recognition with his print The Nightmare, parodying John Everett Millais's Sir Isumbras at the Ford.

Rossetti and Frederick Sandys became close friends, and from May 1866 to July 1867, Frederick Sandys lived with Rossetti at 16, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.

Frederick Sandys began drawing in the 1860s for Once a Week, the Cornhill Magazine, Good Words and other periodicals, his work influenced by Albrecht Durer, Ambrosius Holbein, and Alfred Rethel.

Frederick Sandys made a total of 26 between 1859 and 1866, but each was a fine representation of this genre, faithfully engraved by professional wood-engravers, including the Dalziel brothers and Joseph Swain, and they are worthy of the collector's portfolio.

Frederick Sandys had an eye and talent for exacting detail, an intention to accurately reflect the subject, revealed in the quality of his works, equally impressive for its technical detail as for its imaginative point of view.

Frederick Sandys's The Death of King Warwulf is an example of his ability to create drawings that translated well for the engravings.

Frederick Sandys had previously used tales from King Arthur as inspiration for his work, such as King Pelles' Daughter.

Study for Autumn, made in 1860, is one of the many studies Frederick Sandys made before painting Autumn and provides evidence of Frederick Sandys's skill as a draughtsman.

Frederick Sandys captures minute details, such as the soldier's uniform and the plants and flowers.

Frederick Sandys painted little, and the dominant influence upon his art was the influence exercised by lofty conceptions of tragic power.